Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

What our laws do is deliver national environmental standards for the first time we've seen in Australian law. What our laws do is lift the penalties on business when they breach the law when it comes to the environment. What our laws do is require proponents by law to avoid and mitigate environmental impacts before they offset their environment, and what our laws do is require proponents of projects to deliver a net gain for the environmental offsets. There are just four reasons of the many reasons why the Greens should support these laws, but we know they're always more interested in grandstanding.